This promise of change one girl's story in the fight for school equality
"In 1956, one year before federal troops escorted the Little Rock 9 into Central High School, fourteen year old Jo Ann Allen was one of twelve African-American students who broke the color barrier and integrated Clinton High School in Tennessee. At first things went smoothly for the Clinton 12, but...
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New York, NY :
Bloomsbury Children's Books,
2019.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Mine, theirs, and ours
- Me, myself, and I
- Getting ready (May to August 1956)
- Down the hill (late August to Labor Day)
- Try again (three weeks in September)
- Fear (late September to mid-November)
- Going downhill (mid-November to December)
- Epilogue.
